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Mrs Naomi Long: Assembly records
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On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Member will be aware that there is an obligation on Members to correct the record when they speak in error. He has just said that the amendments to the Bill are 10 times the amount of the original Bill. That is factually incorrect. You can flick your papers all you want, but…
I thank the Member for giving way. The Member has been around these institutions for a long time. He knows full well that, in 1999, the late Seán Neeson and Stephen Farry penned a lengthy article about the problems with the Good Friday Agreement and foresaw much of the difficulty that we are facing now. Alliance's…
The Member and I have agreed almost too much this afternoon. We will have to address that at another time. On the failure to address the issue in a useful way, will the Member agree that, instead of having shot down the proposal in flames, if we had, for example, discussed Paul Frew's amendment to an amendment as a…
I appreciate the Member giving way. One of the ways in which we could do that would be to look at the cohort below the current minimum age of criminal responsibility. As I have said, there are multi-agency response teams in place where the offending is serious. Where it is an individual incident, social services…
The reason is simple and, again, was set out in yesterday's debate. The Member is well aware from his other role of the constraints within which we operate in the Department of Justice. I could not afford to send my officials off to come up with a system that would have required a multi-agency approach, drawing in…
I thank the Member for giving way. He was here for a considerable part of last night's debate but perhaps not for the bit when I said that, were the amendment to be made, it would not be commenced until such time as we had put in place alternative accountability mechanisms for young people who engaged in worrying,…
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I believe that this is unprecedented: not that a Minister would make a contribution to the business of the House as a Back-Bench Member, but that a Minister would intervene in that way on another Minister's Bill that is going through the House and say that he is speaking as a Minister.…
There is also significant evidence, as, I am sure, the Member will agree, that children who are subject not to abuse but simply to neglect will often test boundaries in order to see whether somebody will intervene to say, "No". In cases of neglect, those boundaries will often be tested to the point at which a child…
Does the Member agree that it would also help if the right supports were in place for vulnerable young people who are at risk of offending? One of the challenges is that, once a young person gets embroiled in the criminal justice system and in offending, it is very difficult to extricate them from it. Many of them, as…
As further evidence on that, as Justice Minister, I did a write-round, which I am compelled to do, on two issues, the first being equal protection for children and the second being the minimum age of criminal responsibility. While I had positive responses from a number of Ministers, it is correct to say that, to allow…
On a point of order, Mr Speaker It is a point of order, Mr Speaker. Last week, when I raised the issue of appropriate language in the Chamber, I drew attention to the 2009 ruling of your predecessor William Hay, in which he said that not only the content of speech but the context of speech would be considered in…
I ask the Member to reflect on and withdraw what he has just said. It was disingenuous. Sian Mulholland spoke at length about the impact on victims. I do not mind having robust debate, and I do not mind the fact that we disagree on the matter — we clearly do — but to misrepresent Sian's comments on victims is wholly…
I thank the Member for giving way and for bringing some calm to the proceedings. The issue is not that rehabilitation matters only for young people — I agree with him on that — but it is that, for young people, it can have a more profound effect. They are in their formative years, and it can prevent a lifetime of…
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for a Member to accuse other Members of the House to have spoken "mistruths" in the Chamber? I certainly know that, under Erskine May, it is not appropriate for somebody to accuse another Member of speaking "mistruths".